This is the first wide-ranging collection of articles on the history of hospitals in the
Mediterranean northern Europe and the Americas for over seventeen years. It brings together
fully revised and expanded versions of papers from the first two conferences (1999 University
of East Anglia Norwich 2001 Verona University) sponsored by the International Network for the
History of Hospitals. The collection shows the vigour and variety of the latest scholarly
research on these complex institutions. The sixteen contributions present a nuanced approach to
the impact of hospitals on society over a very long time period and an exceptional geographical
range.
